Key Terms Related to Gases
This text highlights key terms important for the study of gas pressure; relating pressure, volume, amount, & temperature: the ideal gas law; stoichiometry of gaseous substances, mixtures, & reactions; effusion & diffusion of gases; the kinetic-molecular theory; and non-ideal gas behaviour.
Topics
- absolute zero
- Amontons’s law
- atmosphere
- atm
- Avogadro’s law
- bar
- barometer
- Boyle’s law
- Charles’s law
- compressibility factor
- Z
- Dalton’s law of partial pressures
- diffusion
- effusion
- Graham’s law of effusion
- hydrostatic pressure
- ideal gas
- ideal gas constant
- R
- ideal gas law
- kinetic molecular theory
- manometer
- mean free path
- mole fraction
- X
- partial pressure
- pascal
- Pa
- pounds per square inch
- psi
- pressure
- rate of diffusion root mean square velocity
- urms
- standard conditions of temperature and pressure
- STP
- standard molar volume
- torr
- van der Waals equation
- vapor pressure of water